Flutter Gems
Flutter Gems is a curated list of 7250+ useful Dart & Flutter packages that are categorized based on functionality.
Top Flutter Tab packages
Last updated: May 18, 2026
Tabs organize content across different screens, data sets, and interactions at the same level of hierarchy. Users can navigate between tabs by tapping or swiping horizontally.
Best Practices for Tabs
- Swipeable Views: Always wrap your tab content in a
TabBarView. Users naturally expect to be able to swipe horizontally anywhere on the screen to switch between adjacent tabs. - Limit Tab Count: A standard top
TabBarshould not have more than 3 or 4 tabs visible at once. If you have more, use a scrollable tab bar, but be aware that hidden tabs are rarely discovered by users. - Clear Indicators: Ensure the active tab is highly distinct. Use a contrasting underline indicator and bold text to instantly communicate which view is currently active.
The complete list of Custom Tabs, Scrollable Tab Bars, and Segmented Control packages for Flutter is provided below.
buttons_tabbar
👍 442 ⬇️ 8.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A Flutter package that implements a TabBar where each label is a toggle button.
tab_container
👍 410 ⬇️ 4.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Customisable tab view/carousel with animated indicator. Just pass in children and tabs, or use a TabController, change the tab side, add color(s), and more.
tab_indicator_styler
👍 298 ⬇️ 44.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Add beautiful and trending tab indicators directly to your default Flutter TabBar
custom_sliding_segmented_control
👍 228 ⬇️ 47.4K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Allows you to flexibly configure the widget for displaying controls. You can add color, speed, size, initial value, animation and more.
bubble_tab_indicator
👍 254 ⬇️ 3.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter library to add bubble-like effect to tab indicator to TabBar.
contained_tab_bar_view
👍 190 ⬇️ 5.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Encapsulates TabController, TabBar and TabBarView into a single customizable Widget.
extended_tabs
👍 170 ⬇️ 4.6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A powerful official extension library of Tab/TabBar/TabView, which support to scroll ancestor or child Tabs when current is overscroll, and set scroll direction and cache extent.
scrollable_list_tab_scroller
👍 172 ⬇️ 1.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Customizable Flutter widget that synchronizes a scrollable list of grouped items with tabs
tabbed_view
👍 129 ⬇️ 2.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
Flutter widget inspired by the classic Desktop-style tab component. Supports customizable themes.
dynamic_tabbar
👍 119 ⬇️ 2.8K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
Flutter package to handle dynamic Tabs (TabBar and TabBarView) in a easiest way.
flutter_advanced_segment
👍 116 ⬇️ 5.2K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
An advanced segment widget, that can be fully customized with bunch of properties, just try it and enjoy!
scroll_navigation
👍 120 ⬇️ 89
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
It's a powerful navigation by gestures and taps. You can scroll from left to right or tap on the navigation icons.
material_segmented_control
👍 103 ⬇️ 12.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A segmented control widget like the one for iOS, but in Material design.
vertical_scrollable_tabview
👍 105 ⬇️ 932
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A Flutter widget which syncronize a ScrollView and a custom tab view.
animated_segmented_tab_control
👍 100 ⬇️ 3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A customizable segmented control that can be used with a TabView.
pluto_layout
👍 82 ⬇️ 255
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
PlutoLayout is a Flutter UI package that can configure a menu or tab screen on each side.
vertical_tab_bar_view
👍 79 ⬇️ 110
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A new Flutter package project.
floating_tabbar
👍 78 ⬇️ 82
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Easily navigate complex UIs across platforms with floating_tabbar. Built on Material Design, it's responsive and intuitive.
cupertino_tabbar
👍 72 ⬇️ 1.1K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A highly customisable and simple widget for having iOS 13 style tab bars.
widget_with_codeview
👍 67 ⬇️ 197
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A widget with side-by-side source code view.
slide_switcher
👍 60 ⬇️ 509
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Package for creating switching widgets with extensive customization options
flutter_custom_tab_bar
👍 54 ⬇️ 1.7K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
custom tab bar.
container_tab_indicator
👍 44 ⬇️ 6K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Build your own Tab indicator using familiar Container-like properties.
contentsize_tabbarview
👍 37 ⬇️ 7.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Improved autoscale_tabbarview package
autoscale_tabbarview
👍 36 ⬇️ 4.3K
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A simple package which extends default TabbarView to have childreb with dynamic height.
infinite_scroll_tab_view
👍 32 ⬇️ 122
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Flutter package for tab view component that can scroll infinitely.
animated_toggle
👍 29 ⬇️ 144
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
Animated Toggle Give you easy way to make your custom Animated toggle.
flutter_point_tab_bar
👍 16 ⬇️ 36
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A tab bar widget for Flutter with point indicator. It work on both Android and IOS.
wp_pivot_flutter
👍 12 ⬇️ 13
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Poor
A Windows Phone style pivot tab bar implementation in Flutter
flutter_tabbar_lite
👍 7 ⬇️ 68
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
FlutterTabBarLite is a custom tab bar widget with animation, horizontal & vertical features.
fw_tab_bar
👍 3 ⬇️ 43
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Average
A customizable tab bar widget with slide animation.
smooth_infinite_tab_bar
👍 1 ⬇️ 182
Dart 3 compatibleMaintenance Status: Good
A horizontally scrolling tab bar with infinite bidirectional items. Smooth animations, auto-scroll on selection, and fully customizable. Zero dependencies beyond Flutter SDK.
md2_tab_indicator
👍 89 ⬇️ 46
Maintenance Status: Poor
MD2TabIndicator is a tab indicator influenced by Google's Material Design 2 tab indicator design and developed by
shifting_tabbar
👍 67 ⬇️ 37
Maintenance Status: Poor
A custom tab bar widget for Flutter framework with nice and clean shifting animation.
reorderable_tabbar
👍 38 ⬇️ 32.5K
Maintenance Status: Poor
Reorderable TabBar package for Flutter, with this package you can easily reorder tabs in TabBar.
vertical_tabs
👍 62 ⬇️ 39
Maintenance Status: Poor
A vertical tabs package with some handy settings for flutter framework.
toggle_bar
👍 44 ⬇️ 16
Maintenance Status: Poor
A horizontal bar of toggle tabs with customisable colors and labels.
tab_switcher
👍 38 ⬇️ 10
Maintenance Status: Poor
Build your complex app around tabs just like Chrome for Android
flutter_colorful_tab
👍 33 ⬇️ 125
Maintenance Status: Poor
A colorful TabBar for Flutter where each tab has a color (inspired by SmartNews app).
tabbar
👍 24 ⬇️ 15
Maintenance Status: Poor
Simple tabbar, rewritten using pagecontroller and facilitating internal PageView manipulation
flutter_tab_bar_no_ripple
👍 17 ⬇️ 24
Maintenance Status: Poor
TabBarNoRipple widget with no ripple effect, same API with TabBar widget.